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PhotoHunt: Lock

This is a roadside stand where I stop and shop sometimes. Nice stuff for sale but what's unusual about this place is that there is never anyone there. You shop on the honor system.

They do have a lock on the money box but still, they trust people to put money in the box (and not grab the box and run off with it). There used to be more stands like this when I was a kid; it made me happy to find this one.

Hi Annie, great take on this week's theme. Its wonderful to see that stands with an honor system still exist. And you're right, although there's a lock, someone could just run off with the box. Trust and honor are great virtues.

just like in U.S, you put the coins and get the newspaper from the machine which have so many copies of newspaper in it. They just take one and this case will never happen in Malaysia. They will put the money for one copy and take ten copies from the vendor machine.

I know what you mean - these sorts of stands are few and far between. There is a farm near us that sells organic manure (how can it be anything but organic, I wonder) in front of their barn. No locked boxes for them, just a plastic container with no lid. LOL

Thanks for bringing back such great memories.
I remember my Mom sending me to the local marked. If she was busy, Mrs. Davis, the owner, would let me write my list of purchase in our account book myself. Everybody paid their grocery bill at the end of the month.